On land, creatures similar to Komodo dragons, but with six powerful legs, are the apex predators of the wild shores. Their long tongues are barbed with hooked spikes and they wrap their tongues around the necks of creatures and pull them closer in order to bite their neck. The bacteria in the mouth of the basilisk-like creature will infect the prey. Even if the prey manages to escape, the infection will eat away at the creature and kill it. The dragon stalks its victim until it meets its inevitable fate.
The Drill Divers are seagull type creatures. They walk on their four wings similar to a Quetzalcoatlus. With their four wings and their drill-like beak, they dive in a spiral into the ocean at a speed strong enough to pierce the hard scales of the dragonfish. When the drill divers successfully pierce their prey, they are strong enough to carry their prey out of the water and to land where they bring to their young or to their flock. If the dragonfish is too big, they'll sacrifice the use of two of their wings to carry the fish and only use the front two in order to get to land, but they're slower in this state and more susceptible to being attacked by the six-legged dragons.
Dragonfishes are a common species of fish around that populate the tops of the coral reefs. Dragonfishes are thought to be able to live on forever. They develop a hard shell over their bodies, and the longer they live, the harder this shell gets. Drill Divers are prominent around the shores preventing Dragonfishes from getting too large, but some dragonfishes do escape the drill divers attacks and live long enough to not only survive the attack but also becomes too heavy for the birds to carry away.
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